August 2003

Memorial Day is a day to honor those American servicemen we paid the ultimate price for our liberty and freedom. I have often quoted “The Warrior Creed” of the late Dr. Robert Humphrey as crystallized by Jack Hoban: “Wherever I go, everyone i... More »

What is happening over the Continuing Criminal Enterprise called the Democratic Party? Is it just coming apart, dead in the water after a self-inflicted explosion in the engine room? We are approaching the fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Jack K... More »

Image courtesy of David Wees under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. If my article “An American Dilemma” caused folks to believe that once this nation fires the first shot in an unjust war that I am immediately pro-Bush and Co., they neither understand me nor my wr... More »

A century or two ago, as a young man, I read a story by Ernest Hemingway. At the time, he was all the rage and I didn’t know he was a Red. I was still too young to understand the story. If I remember now, at a distance of many decades, it was a Nick Adams stor... More »

Governments are experts on running up public debts. They are unmatched in spending of every sort and ignoring how to pay for those expenditures. Since they make up the legal tender laws, citizens are required to carry on financial transactions, bound to whatev... More »

“For the last twelve years, CNN has provided the West with the dominant news image of Saddam’s Iraq. It was the jewel in the crown of CNN’s international reporting reputation. “But, now we know, from the unwitting pen of CNN’s morally obtuse chief ... More »

The extremely controversial “personalized gun” or “childproof handgun law” signed into law by New Jersey Governor James E. McGreevey on December 23, 2002, mandates that all handguns sold in New Jersey must be “personalized firearm... More »

Few GOP candidates can afford to alienate pro-life voters, since that base of support is needed to win elections. If the Bushes had campaigned on a “pro-choice” position, neither would have been elected. The same holds for most of the Republicans... More »

The purpose of this article is to ascertain how Iraq acquired its arsenal of weapons that eventually led to it being declared as a ‘rogue state’. I stress that some of these subjects have been exhaustively documented elsewhere numerous times. The scope here is... More »

On January 3, the Food and Drug Administration approved fluoxetine (a.k.a. prozac) for use on children as young as seven years old. What brilliance this is. Parents are too stressed out these days to be worried about a toy that is broken, or shoes that somehow... More »

Image courtesy of JD Lasica under CC BY-NC 2.0. Recent polls for the year 2000 presidential election show Al Gore running by substantial margins behind George W. Bush, Elizabeth Dole, and the Tooth Fairy (who may file as a Libertarian.) This has our wooden Vic... More »

War is always about achieving a political end. Even holy wars seek to impose a secular control over the vanquished. At the root of every political conflict, lies the MONEY component. On the scale of greed or fear, international discords can slide up or down. D... More »